Saturday 20 March 2010

Reclaimed rubbish made into works of art


Most discarded objects such as plastic toys, utensils and metal objects will fall fate to an eternity in a landfill, but artist Sayaka Ganz sees a second life in them. In a move for both the planet and art, Ganz recovers all of this junk and upcycles it into animal shaped sculptures. Meant to depict animals caught in motion, at a distance the sculptural effect is certainly striking – one look and you can’t help but think you’ve just caught a real life leap or swoop frozen in time.


Sayaka has already created a number of such sculptures for her collection, all which draw inspiration from her time abroad in various countries. As an artist creating these pieces, she attempts to unravel and understand the mysteries of the world. She believes that by taking arbitrary pieces of discarded materials - much like those pieces of life – each one will find a way to fit with another in a sculpture, and sense can be made.

1 comment:

  1. The two horses are amazing and although this is art I like Sayaka's thought process that each individual discarded utensil will fit together to create a sculpture that can be made sense of.

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